and nato folks were able to do when it came to putting medical care at the forefront for a population that needed it and did not have it before. host: our last call, christina, from michigan. caller: thank you very much. i hope i can organize my thoughts. i flew to phoenix to visit my brother and i sat and talked with a military man who had just retired. i wanted him to explain to me our tactics and how we started all this stuff in afghanistan, because i have a mind of a non- military person. we talk about president obama -- nobody even knew who he was when we started. i cannot understand way back then why we talked about bunker busters, why we announced we were going in, we hung back, we did not go into court or -- tora bora. we telegraphed all of our actions. we dumbed down the ability of our people to escape. what did we do? returned to iraq -- we turned to iraq. i knew iran would rise. host: to you have a question or comment? caller: do you think talking about the axis of evil, iraq, iran, north korea, the thing that set up north korea and iran to do something because we telegraph